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2 columns, 17 written lines.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "2rd century CE" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Egypt Found at Theadelpheia (modern Batn el-Harit), Arsinoites (modern Fayum)." }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "Egypt Found at Theadelpheia (modern Batn el-Harit), Arsinoites (modern Fayum). 2rd century CE. Hunt assigned the manuscript to the second century, but recent scholarship suggests it dates from the 3rd century (Cavallo, 2018 p. 109)." }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "

On the obverse is Greek P 240. The verso has been used for a short letter from Heron to Heroninus, of whose correspondence, dating from about the middle of the third century, there are many other examples.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Written in sloping uncials of the common oval type. A mark of elision is inserted twice, apparently by the original scribe.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Description based on Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts<\/i> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911). Revising dating suggested by Lorenzo Sardone (private communication, 2020), citing Cavallo." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Greek" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "1 fragment Fragment height: 127 mm, width: 108 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Greek P 57" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Classical literature" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Carly Richardson, Elizabeth Gow" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Parts of two columns from the top of a roll inscribed with the 'De Corona' by Demosthenes.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Trismegistos: an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources, no. 59592.<\/i><\/a><\/div>
Mertens-Pack database<\/i>, no. 00283.000.<\/a><\/div>
PDFs of Published Catalogues of Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, 1911-1979.<\/a><\/div>
Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.<\/a><\/div>
Bernhard Hausmann, Demosthenis Fragmenta in Papyris et Membranis Servata (Papyrologica Florentina Vol. 4) 17 (Florence: Ed. Gonnelli, 1978 [Leipzig: 1921]).<\/div>
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri (Roma, 2008) p. 109<\/div>
L. Sardone, For a paleography of Demosthenic papyri (COMSt, forthcoming).<\/div><\/div>
" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Roll" }, { "label": "Material(s)", "value": "Papyrus" }, { "label": "Associated Person(s)", "value": "Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1871-1934); Grenfell, Bernard Pyne (1869-1926); Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913); Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina (1843-1908)" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Like most of the papyri in the John Rylands Library, the precise provenance of this item is uncertain. The majority of the papyri catalogued in 1911 were acquired in Egypt, on the antiquities market and through excavation, by Arthur S. Hunt (1871-1934) and Bernard P. Grenfell (1869-1926). Grenfell and Hunt acquired the papyri in the late 1890s for James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford, and then after her purchase of Crawford\u2019s manuscript collection in 1901 for Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908). Crawford had made some purchases of papyri on the antiquities market in Cairo in the 1890s, but these apparently included no literary papyri, so were probably not among those catalogued in 1911. As Hunt notes in the preface to the catalogue: \"Wherever the provenance seemed sufficiently assured this is specified; when no locality is named, it is to be inferred that satisfactory testimony was not forthcoming.\"." }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "1908" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Demosthenes" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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